Re: Ideas for the oom problem

Hacksaw (hacksaw@hacksaw.org)
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:38:04 -0500


> a. don't kill any task with a uid < 100
>
> b. if uid between 100 to 500 or CAP-SYS equivalent enabled
> set it too a lower priority, so if it is at fault it will happen slower
> giving more time before the system collapses

Deciding what not to kill based on who started it seems like a bad idea. Root
can start netscape just as easily as any user, but if the choice of processes
to kill is root's netscape or a user's experimental database, I'd want the
netscape to go away.

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